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Traditional leaders have strongly expressed their anger at what they say is the failure of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in addressing the plight of rural people. This came out at the 2025 National House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders Imbizo 22.08.2025 3:45

  Guest: Nkosi Langa Mavuso - Deputy Chairperson of the National House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders

The Durban High Court on Tuesday struck off the roll an urgent application brought by the Southern Africa Refugee Organisations Forum (SAROF) against government ministers, related to the ongoing blockade of public healthcare facilities targeting foreign n 22.08.2025 6:34

  Guest: Xolani Zuma - March And March Legal Adviser

The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) strongly rejects the irresponsible remarks by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who suggested that trade unions are responsible for high unemployment through their wage demands. 22.08.2025 5:35

    Guest: Ashley Benjamin - FEDUSA Deputy General Secretary

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa 22.08.2025 6:09

    22 August 2025   1.&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;DR Congo – Kinshasha  A military court has acquitted a former special advisor to the DR Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi. Arrested in 2022, François Beya was charged with conspiring to kill the head of state. He was accused of violating orders and inciting soldiers into a dereliction of duty.   &nbs...

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Reporter 22.08.2025 4:04

    1. Walmart says tariffs are starting to bite 2. Google and Meta seal a cloud deal 3. Markets - US, JSE, rand, oil and Asia

The International Criminal Court has now said that it strongly rejects new US sanctions against Judges and Deputy Prosecutors. It says that these sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates 22.08.2025 5:52

  Guest: Gustavo de Carvalho, Senior Researcher on African Governance and Diplomacy at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

How community media is reinventing itself? What is community media today? 22.08.2025 5:21

  Guest: Dr Sandra Roberts - Researcher at Code for Africa

Postbank wishes to assure all SASSA beneficiaries receiving grants through Postbank's Black Cards and SASSA Gold Cards that their grant payments will continue without any interruption. 22.08.2025 4:45

  Guest: Thami Cele, Postbank Chief Commercial Officer

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Reporter 22.08.2025 3:26

    1. Exxaro delivers double digit earnings growth 2. PPC secures funds for future projects as it sells a property at its Zimbabwean unit 3. Markets - Asia, US, JSE, rand & oil

The US government wants clarification on South Africa's policy on Iran following widely publicised comments from SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya during a trip to Iran. 22.08.2025 4:09

  Guest: Helmoed Heitman - Military And Defense Analyst

The National Lotteries Commission strongly rejects reckless and misleading allegations circulating on social media regarding PowerBall manipulation. As the statutory regulator, the NLC ensures that all National Lottery and Sports Pools games are conducted 21.08.2025 5:11

  Guest: Jodi Scholtz – Commissioner for the National Lotteries Commission

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Business Reporter 21.08.2025 4:17

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is seeking to intervene in the SA Medical Association’s (Sama’s) legal challenge to the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, saying it wants to bring in the perspective of patients who rely on the public health system. 21.08.2025 5:49

  Guest: Sasha Stevenson - Treatment Action Campaign’s legal representative from SECTION27

Although increased representation of women on company boards is linked to positive bottom-line impacts, business is failing to capitalise on the strategic advantages offered by women directors with the achievement of gender parity likely to take more than 21.08.2025 8:32

  Guest: Prof Anita Bosch - Research Chair for Women at Work at Stellenbosch Business School

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Business Reporter 21.08.2025 4:04

    Prosus plans to raise R35 billion as it eyes asset sales Tata sets it’s sights on the local vehicle industry  Markets - Asia, US, JSE, rand & oil

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Business Reporter 21.08.2025 4:17

    Fed minutes reveal concerns about inflation, the cooling labour market and tariffs Declining ad spend weighs on Chinese search engine giant, Baidu Markets - US, JSE, rand, oil and Asia

The Israeli military says it is calling up about 60,000 reservists ahead of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City. A military official said the reservists would report for duty in September and that most of the troops mobilised 21.08.2025 6:04

    Guest: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues

There are now reports that the Transport department has now said that the driver’s licence card backlog was at 539,947(five hundred thirty-nine thousand, nine hundred and forty-seven.) on 11 August 2025. This immense backlog is the result of a three-month 21.08.2025 7:28

    Guest: Collen Msibi - Transport department National spokesperson

The City of Cape Town has been slammed for selecting a Gauteng-based company to receive a R2 billion tender for cleaning and security services across the metro's transport hubs. 21.08.2025 4:10

  Guest: Malvern de Bruyn - Cosatu Western Cape provincial secretary

The Kleinfontein informal settlement has accused the City of Tshwane of wanting to get rid of the Afrikaner community after the city lodged an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria. 21.08.2025 7:28

    Guest: Dannie de Beer - elected member of the board of directors of the Kleinfontein and also a spokesman for the community.

The Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration today welcomed the Education Labour Relations Council’s (ELRC) investigation into allegations of ghost teachers and the selling of teaching posts. 21.08.2025 7:27

  Guest: Bernice Loxton: Education Labour Relations Council Spokesperson

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa 21.08.2025 5:03

    21 August 2025   1.&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;Zambia- Israel  Marking ‘new chapter’ in ties, Sa’ar inaugurates Israeli embassy in Zambia Almost 35 years after Jerusalem and Lusaka renewed relations, foreign minister says nation is a ‘strategic partner for Israel in the southern part of Africa’   2.&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;United States of Amer...

Parliament’s portfolio committees on international relations and defence have summoned Defence Ministers Angie Motshekga and International Relations Ronald Lamola to explain their handling of the controversial remarks by SANDF chief General Rudzani Maphwa 20.08.2025 6:04

    Guest: Dakota Legoete: Chairperson - Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans 

ANC chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli put up a fight to prevent the ad hoc committee probing Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's allegations from dealing with classified information. The MK Party (MKP) and EFF rebutted Ntuli's concerns about the committee de 20.08.2025 7:43

    Guest: Mdumiseni Ntuli – ANC's Chief Whip in the National Assembly 

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health and the newly established KwaZulu-Natal provincial branch of the South African Medical Association (SAMA) have pledged to work together in a groundbreaking collaboration aimed at transforming healthcare delivery in t 20.08.2025 7:39

    Guest: Dr Zanele Bikitsha: SA Medical Association (SAMA) Vice Chairperson 